Report: Church Settled Cases

U.S. & Latin America - U.S. News to Note

February 1, 2002

BOSTON -- The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has quietly settled child sex-abuse claims against at least 70 priests in the past 10 years, The Boston Globe reported Thursday, a revelation likely to aggravate a scandal about pedophile priests. The Globe story, based on an examination of court documents and months of interviews, came as the archdiocese handed over to law-enforcement officials the names of all priests who have been accused during the past 40 years of sexually abusing children.